- Dendrohori
Dendrohori ( _el. Δενδροχώρι) is a village in the community Kastraki in the
Kastoria Prefecture , the peripheryWest Macedonia ,Greece . Dendrohori is located approximately 10 km nortwest ofKastoria and 6 km east of the center of the community Kastraki — the villageIeropigi . Dendrohori has 349 inhabitants (2001).History
Dendrohori was a Slavic-speaking village of about 250 families at the beginning of the 20th century. It was one of the first Slavophone villages to revolt against the
Ottoman Empire in theIlinden Uprising of 1903, for which the Turkish army exacted heavy reprisals, killing many of the villagers and burning it to the ground. However a stand at the nearbyBattle of Lakvata in which the villagers inflicted disproportionate casualties on a much larger Turkish force became a nationalist rallying point and served as the basis for a poem byLazar Poptrajkov .cite book | author = Iakovos D. Michailidis | chapter = On the Other Side of the River: The Defeated Slavophones and Greek History | title = Macedonia: The Politics of Identity and Difference | editor = Jane K. Cowan | publisher = Pluto Press | year = 2000 | id = ISBN 0745315895 | pages = pp. 74–75]The village sided with
Bulgaria during theBalkan Wars and theFirst World War , but became part of Greece following theFirst Balkan War . From the 1930s and especially 1940s many of its citizens became active in Macedonian separatist and Communist groups, the latter due to the Communists' advocacy on behalf of equal rights for ethnic minorities. The village sided with the National Liberation Front on the Communist side during theGreek Civil War , and was destroyed when the Communists lost. Most villagers were forced into exile, and the village was repopulated mainly with Vlach refugees from Epirus.Prior to the
Hellenization of this area in 1926, the village was known under its Slavic toponym "Dambeni" ( _mk. Д’мбени, Дамбени; Bulgarian: Дъмбени; Greek: Δύμπενι, Ντέμπενι, "Dimbeni", "Dempeni").fact|date=November 2007References
External links
* [http://www.dambeni.com/ Dambeni: Gone But Not Forgotten]
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